Agrell, Jeffrey - Repercussions

Associate Professor of Horn Jeffrey Agrell has taught at the University of 
Iowa for the past decade after a first career as symphony musician. As a 
performer/educator he has played and taught the full gamut of horn literature 
for symphony orchestra, opera, musicals, ballet, operetta, solo and chamber 
music, while stretching personal artistic boundaries beyond the orchestra as 
a composer, writer, clinician, recording artist, and solo performer. He has 
won awards as both a composer and writer, with some one hundred published 
articles and a blog (hornsights.com) on horn playing. Many of his 
compositions have been recorded on CD, published, and performed at contests, 
festivals, and concert halls worldwide. Agrell also teaches a course in 
Improvisation for Classical Musicians and is the author of Improvisation 
Games for Classical Musicians and Improv Games for One Player (both GIA 
Publications). He often gives classical improv concerts and workshops, 
teaching classical musicians how to improvise in various (nonjazz) ways. 
Outside the university, Jeffrey Agrell has been a member of the faculty of 
the Asian Youth Orchestra, the Advisory Council of the International Horn 
Society, and Kendall Betts Horn Camp.
Evan Mazunik is a composer/performer raised on the prairies of Iowa and 
rooted in Queens, NY. Fluent in Soundpainting, a sign language for live 
composition, Mazunik is composer/director for ZAHA, his experimental chamber 
ensemble. His compositions include commissions for jazz band, chorus, 
theater, dance, and film, and his work was featured in a documentary for the 
Finnish Broadcasting Company. Mazunik has performed with Anthony Braxton, 
Walter Thompson, Carla Bley, Robin Eubanks, Danielson, and Sufjan Stevens, 
and has played at creative music venues such as Roulette, The Stone, Barbes, 
and Galapagos. He received a Bachelors degree in piano performance and a 
Masters in jazz studies from the University of Iowa and has taught 
improvisation at the University of Indiana and the Royal Academy of Music in 
London. Mazunik currently serves as music director at Resurrection 
Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, where he infuses ancient liturgy with 
contemporary innovation.